Read it! We often hear, "Start your story with some action!" when that's not exactly the right thing to do. Necessarily. Jodi says it all really well.

As for me, I'm looking forward to an afternoon of revising with Ben and Jerry's new flavor on the end of my spoon. HAVE YOU SEEN IT? Coffee and malt (MALT!) ice cream with a whiskey caramel swirl. There are no words for this.

But see, I don't think it's about pleasing everyone. When they say they want "more action," I think what they REALLY want is more CONFLICT. Which may or may not be action (as Jodi says). So if you've got a whole chapter of character/worldbuilding with no CONFLICT, then people are probably going to say things like, "I want more action." Which really means conflict (or, in Jodi's terms, CHANGE).